Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-31
TIE BIvALvE In N. G.
REPORT OF THE srArE sHeLL-rTsH
COMBUSTION ON OYSTERS.
Delegates 10 the Prison Congress-
Preschert Conference.-The Game
a Mob Frustrated, &C.
Lspeclal Telegram % tne pIspatch. !


RALEIGH. August 30.--The State
Shell Fish Commission have held q
meeting at Nag's Head to hear reports
from the decision in regard to public
oyster-grounds in Dare county. These
grounds are to be thrown open on
October 10Th, where tracts may be
located at the rate OF twenty-five cents
per acre. Lieutenant Francis Winslow's
report show that there are several
thousand acres suitable for oyster cut
ture. Residents as well as non-residents
can become purchasers Of these oyster
tracts. There are no protests against
the action of the She'll Fish Commission.
DELEGATES TO THE PRISON CONGRESS.
Governor Scales to-day appointed the
following delegates to the National
Prison Congress, at Toronto, Canada,
September 10th L. r. Stamps, w. J.
Hicks, Rev. Thomas Dixon, of Raleigh I;
DIR. b. 4. Dixon, w. f. Beasley, OF
Oxford J. II. Mills, of Townsville.
A great freshet in Cape Fear river is
reported. The rise at Fayetteville is
forty feet. 1t is expected that great
damage will be done the growing crops
in the lowgrounds.
The sheriff of Robson county to-day
brought eight convicts to the peniten-
tiary. Among them was Obed Ma
ready alias Owen Manning, a noto-
rious horsc-thief, who committed so
many crimes in Robson, Beaufort,
and Lenoir counties.
J. B. Warren, of the firm of Warren
& Page, proprietors of the Globe tobacco
warehouse at Durham, have assigned.
Their liabilities are officially stated to
be $50, coo, while their assets are I'M
known,
A LAWSUIT POSTPONED.
The noted lawsuit OF McElwee, oil
Statesyille. against Blackwell Durham
Tobacco Company, which was to have
been heard at Salisbury this week on
removal from Person county, has been
postponed pending the decision by the
Supreme Court.
The, Local Preachers Conference at
Rutherford College has closed. The
attendance Sunday was very large.
Bishop Key preached an able sermon.
Rev. DIR. Alternately presented the Ia
bernacle, which was then formally re-
ceived and dedicated by the Bishop.
Rev. L. w. Crawford, of Newberne,
preached a missionary sermon, and
Rev. J. L. Nelson preached a special
sermon.
HANDSOME RAILROAD OFFICES.
The new offices of the Atlantic Coast
Line at Wilmington have been COM
pleted. They cost some $50, 600, and
replace those destroyed in the great
fire. The burned district is rapidly
being rebuilt, and the place Is develop
ing much energy.
Talk about railway connection be-
tween Durham and Fayetteville con-
tinues. Something may yet be done in
that direction. 1t is notable fact that
the building of every line now Under
way will be to the advantage of Vir-
Ciuia-either to Richmond or Norfolk.
This is commented upon as showing
the desire for more connections with
the Old Dominion.
The officer in charge of the signal
station SAYS the rainfall since July 26th
is very far in excess of anything ever
known in that line. As much rain has
fallen as sometimes falls in almost an
entire year.
PUMPS BROKEN down.
The pumps at the Asheyille water
works have broken down. They were
too small to accomplish the tremendous
work of lifting the Swannanox river
water to height of $50 feet, and will
have to be replaced with new ones Of
much greater power.
There is no need to go West in
search of big game. One buyer Of
skins at Asheville reports that he pur-
chased the pelts of 200 bears-all killed
last season in the Blue Ridge country.
Bears appear to be numerous this sea-
syn.
The heavy rains have swept away
Rand's mill dam, in this county, and
injured the mill, the damage being not
less than 81, coo.
THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR
are making preparations to develop
their newly acquired propertyat Make
leyville, Hyde county, and will have
several manufactures in operation in a
few weeks.
Judge Samuel Hall, of the Supreme
Court of Georgia, who was attack
ed with a fatal sickness at Asheville,
and who died in Georgia Saturday
night, was q native of the Cape Fear
section. in this State. He was very
highly esteemed as a Judge and as a
man.
A report comes from Kinston of an
attack by a mob upon negro named
Davis. The house of the latter was
broken open and shots fired through
the door. Davis surrendered, and
when outside made break for liberty
and escaped unhurt, though every man
in the mob fired at him. He was
slightly scorched with powder on the
neck. The mob thought that Davis
was concerned in very grave offence
wherein a white woman of that neigh
hood figured. He denies this, says he
recognized several of his assAilants,
and threatens to make trouble.